THE ROSEBUD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Montana Central Grasslands setting.
Rosebud County has 5,008.1 square miles of land in Montana. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Rosebud County: Montana Central Grasslands, Sagebrush Steppe, Pine Scoria Hills, among others.
Rolling semiarid plains are punctuated by buttes, badlands and river breaks. Much of the regional terrain developed on sandstone, siltstone and shale without the leveling influence of continental glaciers.
Regional context: Northwestern Great Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Rosebud County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Montana Central Grasslands44.6%
- Sagebrush Steppe33.6%
- Pine Scoria Hills20.9%
- Mesic Dissected Plains0.9%
Finding your parcel within Rosebud County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Rosebud County, including Lame Deer, Ashland, Birney. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Rosebud County by land and water
The Census records 17.1 square miles of water within Rosebud County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Rosebud County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Rosebud County has 4,351.1 times the land area of nearby Forsyth city (1.15 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Big Horn County, Custer County, Garfield County, Musselshell County, Petroleum County, Powder River County, Treasure County, Yellowstone County within Montana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

